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Imagine a world in which you see numbers and letters as colored even though they're printed in black, in which music or voices trigger a swirl of moving, colored shapes, in which words and names fill your mouth with unusual flavors.
想像这样一个世界，你从中看到的数字和字母是彩色的，尽管它们是用黑色写下的，这里的音乐或声响会激起由移动彩色色块组成的漩涡，在这里，词语和名字会用不寻常的味道填满你的嘴巴。
Jail tastes like cold, hard bacon while Derek tastes like earwax.
“Jail”尝起来像冰冷坚硬的培根，而“Derek”吃着像耳屎。
Welcome to synesthesia, the neurological phenomenon that couples two or more senses in 4% of the population.
欢迎来到联觉的世界，联觉是一种神经学现象，它将4%的人的两种或两种以上的感觉连接在了一起。
A synesthete might not only hear my voice, but also see it, taste it, or feel it as a physical touch.
一个联觉者可能不仅会听到我的声音，还会看到、尝到或者以物理接触的方式感知到我。
Sharing the same root with anesthesia, meaning no sensation, synesthesia means joined sensation.
联觉和感觉缺失的词根相同，感觉缺失是指没有感觉，而联觉是指感觉被联通。
Having one type, such as colored hearing, gives you a 50% chance of having a second, third, or fourth type.
拥有一种联觉，例如“色-听”联觉，你便有50%的可能拥有第二种、第三种甚至第四种联觉。
One in 90 among us experience graphemes, the written elements of language, like letters, numerals, and punctuation marks, as saturated with color.
90个人中便有一个会感觉字素，即构成语言的书面成分，例如字母、数字还有标点符号都是五彩缤纷的。
Some even have gender or personality.
有些甚至有性别或性格。
For Gail, 3 is athletic and sporty, 9 is a vain, elitist girl.
对盖尔来说，3充满运动气息，9则是一个自负的精英女孩。
By contrast, the sound units of language, or phonemes, trigger synestetic tastes.
与之相对，语言单位或者说音素会联发味觉。
For James, college tastes like sausage, as does message and similar words with the -age ending.
对詹姆斯来说，"college"尝起来像香肠，"message"和其他类似的以"age"结尾的词也一样。
Synesthesia is a trait, like having blue eyes, rather than a disorder because there's nothing wrong.
联觉是人的一种特征，就像蓝眼睛一样，它不是一种紊乱，因为它并不代表什么毛病。
In fact, all the extra hooks endow synesthetes with superior memories.
事实上，所有这些额外的关联赋予了联觉者超凡的记忆力。
For example, a girl runs into someone she met long ago.
举个例子，一个女孩遇见了一个她很久以前认识的人。
"Let's see, she had a green name. D's are green: Debra, Darby, Dorothy, Denise. Yes! Her name is Denise!"
“让我看看，她有个绿色的名字。D开头的是绿色的：Debra，Darby，Dorothy，Denise. 没错！她叫Denise！”
